Albert Einstein By Glo Jan 1, 1875 Disregard the month and day in the date. Jan 1, 1879 Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany. Jan 1, 1902 Einstein gets a job as a patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland. Jan 1, 1905 Einstein's miracle year, he published four papers including one about special reletivity and one about matter energy equivalence. Jan 1, 1914 World War I starts. Jan 1, 1915 Einstein completes his general theory of relativity. Jan 1, 1920 Women are given the right to vote in the United States of America. Jan 1, 1921 Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. Jan 1, 1929 The stock market crashes and the Great Depression starts. Jan 1, 1939 Einstein writes President Roosevelt a letter convincing him to start the Manhattan project and develop the nuclear bomb. Jan 1, 1955 Albert Einstein dies in Princeton, New Jersey.